Ok Phil,
my email address is,
greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.gbrayton.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ChordStrum.cal
Hi Greg,
Its super easy from a technical point of view. I've documented its
installation & use. Why don't I send you the documentation file(its a
notepad text file) offline, and let you look it over. If you think you
can
hack it--we'll go from there.
----- From: "Greg Brayton" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:47 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ChordStrum.cal
> Phil I'm a guitar player, and I'd love to try this, but as a computer
wise
> fellow, you'd have to say I'm not as with it. However, if you
could > talk
> me
> through some things instilation wise, and any other technical
deal > that
> might come along, I'd love to give this deal a try. Thanks for trying
this
> stuff Phil. I think it's great!
> http://www.gbrayton.com
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Halton"
<philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "ddots-l" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:51 PM
> Subject: [ddots-l] ChordStrum.cal
>
>
>> Hello listers,
>>
>> A while back I mentioned a CAL program I was working up to
enable >> chord
>> strumming. Well, I've been working like a dog on this software and
have
>> probably over 150 hours of development into it now. The good
news >> for
me
> is
>> that its essentially finished and I'm doing final testing and working
up
> the
>> documentation for it(the easy part).
>>
>> It features the ability to:
>> Set the span of chord tones (the seperation of chord tones in ticks)
>>
>> Scale and reverse scale the span by percentages (increases, or
decreases
> if
>> reverse scaling, span of latter chord tones an additional x%)
>>
>> set velocity of chords with different settings available
for >> upstrokes
>> and
>> downstrokes. Also allows for scaling and reverse scaling of
chord >> tone
>> velocities.
>>
>> Set duration of chords, with ability to randomly adjust durations of
>> individual chord tones for a "looser" feel.
>>
>> All settings are made at runtime, but you can also adjust program
>> settings
>> "on the fly" from within the sequence itself through the use
of >> "chord
>> events" which are manually embedded notes from the zero
octave that >> the
>> program responds to by adjusting settings accordingly, and then
> discarding
>> from the sequence. These "chord event" markers can be combined in
> different
>> ways for different effects like upstroke, reverse velocity scaling,
>> linear
>> span etc.
>>
>> Its fairly powerful and flexible compared with most CAL programs I've
> seen.
>> Now that I've encoded all the features I thought useful, all that
remains
> is
>> to put it through its paces and see how these features combine, and
just
>> what they're capable of producing.
>>
>> My goal in all this has been to produce a program that will
answer >> the
> need
>> for a flexible and easy to use way to simulate realistic
guitar >> rhythm
>> patterns from a MIDI controller. As much as possible, I have
kept >> the
>> emphasis on intuitiveness and simplicity of use. The biggest problem
>> with
>> CAL scripts is that basically, you have no real idea what
they will >> do
as
>> there is virtually no documentation that accompanies them. So, I am
> writing
>> up a full length documentation as well as a few sammple
Sonar >> projects
>> showing its use.
>>
>>
>> If anyone(preferably a guitar player with plenty of Sonar experience)
> would
>> be interested in doing a little beta testing, please contact me
off-list
> at:
>>
>> philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
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